Major Additions - CERBERUS: 1 vB4: runs multiple domains with custom styles, forums, universal login

***Attention: This product is currently UNSUPPORTED***

We would like to release an Alpha version of the vBulletin4 Cerberus product. This product allows you to create one vBulletin4 installation which can power unlimited number of domains and sub-domains; while allowing to customize each domain differently to make it look like different sites or sections. Domains will have one universal admincp and user login information.

***Example***
www.supercoolautoforum.com - main site, all forums
ferarri.supercoolautoforum.com - custom style and forums, same login
bmw.supercoolautoforum.com- custom style and forums, same login
honda.supercoolautoforum.com - custom style and forums, same login
supercoolmotorcycleforum.com - custom style and forums, same login

*** Why are you releasing this, I want more features?! ***

This is a very simple product; we believe that the basic functionality provided in this product will satisfy a lot of communities - and since the product is simple - it will be easy to extend it and modify it to work for your custom community requirements.

Overview of Current Features:

• One shared installation of vBulletin 4
• One shared user account on all domains
• Custom Style for each domain
• Custom Forum listing for each domain

Known Issues:

• CMS and Blogs are currently not configured to have special domain-specific categories and sections. CMS is shared across all sites although the appearance will be different for each domain.

Project Contributors: s.lauderdale;m.biddle;a.ahn; anders

[gremrock]

Great idea, works fine no issues. Will use at a later date!

[sticky]

Originally Posted by sweetpotato

Just tested on 4.2.0. It does not work.

The problem is your configuration not the product.

[huevncom]

thanks ! working for me.

[iMpuLzBe]

Can someone say if it's possible to use the same cache for every site? And if I do so, what are the consequences for my site?

I want to have my sites configured in a way the users don't have to log in every time when they change the domain. Is this possible?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by iMpuLzBe

I want to have my sites configured in a way the users don't have to log in every time when they change the domain. Is this possible?

I don't know if it is without causing problems, would be nice.

[iMpuLzBe]

@sticky: I played a little bit with my settings and this is the result I got:

If the user uses the login at the main domain where everything is hosted, he is logged in on each domain.

EDIT: Is it possible to connect the different domains with different languages?

[patrick91]

Originally Posted by iMpuLzBe

@sticky: I played a little bit with my settings and this is the result I got:

If the user uses the login at the main domain where everything is hosted, he is logged in on each domain.



EDIT: Is it possible to connect the different domains with different languages?

That bacause it uses 1 and the same cookies! There is no possibily to use prefixes i think. need to say never tried this mod. Will test it maybe soon on vb4.2.

[iMpuLzBe]

Originally Posted by KW802

OK, had a strange issue...

I have my forums grouped together in three major cats. For example...

Category 100
- Forum 101
- Forum 102
- Forum 103

Category 200
- Forum 201
- Forum 202
- Forum 203

Category 300
- Forum 301
- Forum 302
- Forum 303

I have Cerberus configured so that Domain A has access to Category 100 & 200 while Domain B has access to Category 300.

While posting on Domain A in Forum 102 (just for example, but really any forum on Domain A) I was getting a 'No permissions' error. To get around that I disabled the unset permissions line from the "Forum Display" plugin used by Cerberus. Did not solve my problem but allowed me to continue so I could experiment. When I did continue my new thread that I was posting in Forum 102 ended up being posted in Forum 303!

So I poked around for a bit in the "Forum Display" plugin again and enabled the 'debug' lines so I could see what was going on in what sequence. Sure enough Forum 303 was the last forum ID that was being evaluated and, since I was on Domain A and not Domain B, it was removing that forum ID from the cache & permissions.

Going back to posting a new thread I did a view source on the page and could see that even though I was posting to Forum 102 in the URL the various buttons (eg: preview, save, etc.) were all referencing forum ID 303 instead. That led me to believe then that the variable $forumid being used in the plugin was not being preserved as a local scope variable and was being used by the rest of vB, hence why since forum ID 303 was the last one evaluated then that is where it was thinking I was trying to post to.

To confirm I changed all references in that plugin from $forumid to $forumidx to make it unique and repeated my experiments. Success!

This was with vBulletin 4.0.8 running on PHP 5.2.12 using the version of Cerberus in this thread.

Had the same problem, so it is still not fixed.

[conaero]

Guys, have installed this and its great but I have a major problem. if you go to the main url where the site is hosted: www.sportsitalia.com, it works fine, but as soon as you log in on the Cerberus domain, www.sportsmaserati.com when you post in any forum, they all end up in one forum called classifieds>Other.

Its a great pluggin and we dont want to pull it, but if we cant fix this, we have no option, can you help or am I doing something mad????

I have created a temporary login so you can test: U: test P: password please dont abuse it.

[tokads3]

We installed this MOD and it caused a problem with the display window smileys, it was blank, so we had to disable it.
There was no error in the server logs
Too bad, I just wanted to pass the information